The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-10-13
OTHER LOCALS.

OTHER LOCALS.
One hundred boxes OF fine paper
just received at Netherlands City
Drug Store to be sold at Is cents per
box including one quire of paper and
twenty five envelopes all pure linen.
Something nice and cheap, come and
get supply before it is all gone.
Mr. Atkinson, of Lynchburg, Va,
was in the city last week and invested
in johnson City dirt He bought one
lot on Main Street near DR., Hash's
and intends to build business house
on it in the spring to be used as
boot and shoe house by himself.
Unaka Springs, the famous summer
resort in Unicoi county, closed out
for the season last week. Messrs. A.
V. Deadrick and son the popular pro-
prietors will be on hands next year by
the first of June and will be prepared
to accommodate more guests than
ever before.
Messrs. A. A. Taylor and F. P. Bax-
ter have established Real Estate,
Loan and Abstract Agency with an
Office in rear of J, NJ. McFerron's
drug store These gentlemen are per-
fectly reliable, and business intrusted
to them will be transacted with dis
patch and judgment. The firm name
will be Taylor, Baxter & Co.
Mr.. A. S. Galliher, well known
and respected citizen of Goodson, Va.
died Tuesday morning about 5 o'clock,
of consumption of the bowels, aged 45
years. He was an upright man, liked
by all who knew him. The funeral
services were conducted at the resi-
dence at 10 a m, yesterday, by Rev.
G. A. Caldwell, and the remains of the
deceased were taken to Paperylle for
interment.-COrier.
We learn from the Nashville Anaeri-
can that the celebrated stallion Tube
Rose" belonging to W. j. Miller, of
Fosterville, Tenn, received two pre-
miums at the State Fair in Nashville
last week. This stallion is a Lexing-
ton Highlander and received one pre-
MUM for being the handsomest piece
Of horse flesh on the ground. The
other premium was for the best sad
die horse.
There are no two citizens whom we
would more regret to lose than DR.. ],
w. Cox and j. F. Swanson. They are
both men Of excellent character and
moral worth, and to fill their places in
the community would be difficult
And yet we are assured that the DR.
really intends changing his location
and Mr.. Swanson is very undetermin.
ed. We could wish it were otherwise
-Ladonia Mo-, Herald.
At the Dunkard Meeting last week
on Knob Creek youth of 68 summers
and a fair maiden, on whose brow but
66 SHOWS had lightly fallen, were uni
ted in the holy bonds OF wedlock
They met for the first time Saturday
evening at 8 o'clock and were married
the following Monday at O'Clock
in the afternoon. After having three
times been married each they have
again taken that solemn VOW unit
death do we part"
Oh, no Chawley, we do not doubt
but what so factories, business houses,
residences and public improvements
have been built or will be built in
Bristol in 1887. Why should wei
Bristol, you say has 1000 inhabitants.
What are so houses to town like
Bristol when johnson City, with Q
population of only 1000, has built and
improved more than 100 dwellings
and business houses. Perhaps you
can catch on to our motion.
People on the Saluda side of 0ul
country, especially along the line o
the 3C's, are getting very much dis
satisfied with the management OF thin
road-in fact they pronounce it a
fraud of the first water, a scheme
which has for its object the levying o.
a tribute on the poor farmers living
along it. Such tribute being in the
shape of a rail road tax.-Edgefeld, S
! c., Advertiser
Those people are evidently poorer
mentally than financially